Grass-eating Zombie

Monoculturalism is nothing but a bad attempt at a racist dogwhistle, but to defend accusations of being a racist dogwhistle requires you to say outright you embrace multiculturalism. The entire concept is self-defeating bullshit that only racist idiots fall for.

Let's be honest. This is not a real debate. This is a deliberate attempt to muddle the meaning of the word multiculturalism so it can become a loaded and divisive political term. It's like when the right appropriated "woke" which had a clear definition before being turned into a meaningless culture war catchall. This is not policy. This is racism and division and it's just luck that Hanson’s desperate throwing spaghetti at the wall style of making shit up has finally got something to stick.

A comment I got on some old posts along with some of the commentary from the cast/crew. And... what? XWP would not have become one of the gayest shows in existence if they "mocked it at the time."

The crew did make a lot of jokes about it sure, but that always came across as them being in on the joke. Not as them mocking it.

Lucy has said that it was around episode 8 in season 1 that they realized that they had a strong audience in the lesbian community. And, no, they did not mock it. They went along with it.

This is a picture of Lucy and Reneé (and Danni Minouge) at the 1999 Sydney Mardi Gras.

There is also the treatment of Miss Artiphys in Here She Comes... Miss Amphipolis.

Where Lucy reportedly pushed for Karen Dior, a transgender woman, being cast in the role. How the show handled that topic. And the kiss at the end, which was another thing pushed by Lucy because she wanted to show people that it’s safe to kiss people with HIV or AIDS (Dior had HIV and was an AIDS activist).

And Miss Artiphys whole character was written by Chris Manheim as a tribute to her brother, who was gay and did drag.

This episode aired in 1997. And contained a topic that's still heavily debated. Perhaps even more so.

There is more, but frankly it is too hot here for me to think properly. I'm not built for heat... Anyway....

The crew were always supportive. Did they joke around about it? Sure. But no one was ever offended by that. Honestly, it wasn't until the finale that they really screwed up and people were pissed. But that had nothing to do with the gay, rather the nasty trope that they played into (bury your gays). But they have since acknowledged that. Also, apparently AFIN wasn't supposed to be the finale but a tie in to a movie that would give the characters a proper send off. I've also heard whispers that the running over of episodes was screwed up so AFIN was supposed to be a mid-season two parter instead of the finale, but I have no idea how accurate that it.